Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). San Francisco Mayor London Breed has promised to tackle her city’s homelessness crisis, a vexing situation involving drug abuse and mental illness that is compounded by the city’s high housing costs. Breed has asked Dr. Anton Nigusse Bland, most …
Read More »In The Fight For Money For The Opioid Crisis, Will The Youngest Victims Be Left Out?
Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Babies born to mothers who used opioids during pregnancy represent one of the most distressing legacies of an opioid epidemic that has claimed almost 400,000 lives and ravaged communities. In fact, many of the ongoing lawsuits filed against drug companies refer to these babies, fighting through withdrawal …
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WARNINGS Included as part of the PRECAUTIONS section. PRECAUTIONS Myelosuppression In uncontrolled trials with SYNRIBO, patients with chronic phase and accelerated phase CML experienced NCI CTC (version 3.0) Grade 3 or 4 thrombocytopenia (85%, 88%), neutropenia (81%, 71%), and anemia (62%, 80%), respectively. Fatalities related to myelosuppression occurred in 3% …
Read More »When Teens Abuse Parents, Shame And Secrecy Make It Hard To Seek Help
Nothing Jenn and Jason learned in parenting class prepared them for the challenges they’ve faced raising a child prone to violent outbursts. The couple are parents to two siblings. They first fostered the children as toddlers and later adopted them. (KHN has agreed not to use the children’s names or …
Read More »Among U.S. States, New York’s Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How’s That?
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). “I just snapped” is how Jessica Lioy describes her attempt in April to kill herself. After a tough year in which she’d moved back to her parents’ Syracuse, N.Y., home and changed colleges, the crumbling of her relationship with …
Read More »‘Warm’ Hotlines Deliver Help Before Mental Health Crisis Heats Up
This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). A lonely and anxious Rebecca Massie first called the Mental Health Association of San Francisco “warmline” during the 2015 winter holidays. “It was a wonderful call,” said Massie, now 38 and a mental health advocate. …
Read More »Black Mothers Get Less Treatment For Postpartum Depression Than Other Moms
Portia Smith’s most vivid memories of her daughter’s first year are of tears. Not the baby’s. Her own. “I would just hold her and cry all day,” Smith said. At 18, Smith was caring for two children, 4-year-old Kelaiah and newborn Nelly, with little help from the partner in her …
Read More »Patient-Induced Trauma: Hospitals Learn To Defuse Violence
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). SAN DIEGO — When Mary Prehoden gets dressed for work every morning, her eyes lock on the bite-shaped scar on her chest. It’s a harsh reminder of one of the worst days of her life. Prehoden, a nurse supervisor …
Read More »An Atlanta Nonprofit Brings Medical Care And Connection To The Homeless
This story is part of a partnership that includes WABE, NPR and Kaiser Health News. This story can be republished for free (details). Herman Ware got his seasonal flu shot while sitting at a small, wobbly table inside a mobile health clinic. The clinic-on-wheels is a large converted van, and …
Read More »A Young Immigrant Has Mental Illness, And That’s Raising His Risk Of Deportation
Christine Herman, Side Effects Public Media When José moved his family to the United States from Mexico nearly two decades ago, he had hopes of giving his children a better life. But now he worries about the future of his 21-year-old-son, who has lived in central Illinois since he was …
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